NLP for Wikipedia (ACL 2025)/Program

2nd WikiNLP: Advancing Natural Language Process for Wikipedia

Co-located with ACL 2025. Room 2.31

Attending

Workshop registration is handled through the main ACL conference. Details may be found here: https://2025.aclweb.org/

Keynote: Monica Lam (Stanford)
- Title: Accelerating Knowledge Discovery with LLM-Based Research Assistants
- Abstract: The advances of LLM have the potential of greatly accelerating the discovery of knowledge. By methodically automating cognitive processes such as reading, retrieving structured and unstructured data, and pre-writing, we have developed a research assistant that helps historians, journalists, and consumers perform research in general topics. Research on specialized topics requires a more sophisticated knowledge discovery pipeline on sets of documents. This talk presents an overview of the research, the impact of the research, and lessons learned.

Keynote: Matthias Gallé (Cohere)
- Title: Multilingual Research in 2025: Deeper & Broader
- Abstract: As many other branches of NLP, research in multilinguality has undergone an 'existential crisis' with the advent of powerful LLMs which seem to throw entire research areas into irrelevancy. What are the challenges for multilinguality in 2025? This talk is an argument that there are two main areas we should focus on: On one side multilingual models still need to get substantially better: in any language-parallel benchmark, non-English performance trails English performance, betraying the benefit of multi-task learning we were promised. Similarly, different languages have challenges that are not present when focusing in English only and we will revise a few of those. On the other side the promise of universality is far from reached: many languages lack support in frontier models, and the curse of multilinguality appears to be a blocking hurdle.
Discussion with a Wikimedian: Ciell

The schedule below is subject to change. Note that the poster session time changed on 31 July.

09:00 – 09:05: Opening
09:05 – 10:00: Keynote: Monica Lam, "Accelerating Knowledge Discovery with LLM-Based Research Assistants"
10:00 – 10:30: Dataset Panel
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break & Play Recorded Videos
11:00 – 12:00: Keynote: Matthias Gallé, "Multilingual Research in 2025: Deeper & Broader"
12:00 – 14:00: Lunch
- 13:15 – 14:00: Informal Conversation about the Checklist (during lunch)
14:00 – 15:00: Poster Session
15:00 – 16:00: Wikimedian Session: Ciell
16:00 – 16:30: Closing